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 Over the past three years, Azerbaijan has revised its risk assessment and has reached the conclusion that the West cannot guarantee its security.
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     The German minister of foreign affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, proposes to negotiate a new multilateral treaty on conventional arms control in Europe.
 Tokyo declared willingness to intensify its economic cooperation with Moscow without waiting to find a solution to the dispute over the Northern Kurils. 
 On 2 September (although unofficial reports cited 29 August as the date), the President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov died in Tashkent.
 The CDU trailed the anti-immigrant party known as Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a local parliamentary election in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
 Gazprom Export held a gas auction for European customers for the third time in the past twelve months.